Baby Mice Wine

I have see a lot of strange things floating in jars that double as health drinks since I have been in Asia. Here’s one. Baby mice wine. Yes, those are baby mice. They are even sometimes eaten alive, and is a delicacy. They must be hairless and still blind. Yummy!

The mice go (most times still alive) into a very strong rice wine called bei jiu (by jo). I’ve seen lizards, newts, snakes… the list goes on. The health properties purported leave me a little suspect… but this is still a little too much for me.

You should see some of the stuff in the spirits I’ve seen here in Asia… snakes, lizards, birds… They do it for health purposes, but it seems to me its more like a “manly test” than anything else. Not sure what it does for the flavour, but I can’t imagine it being very good…